[WikiEN-l] Friday's featured article

Wed Mar 30 17:01:40 UTC 2005

> > I just think it's quite unfortunate if Wikipedia
> > takes itself so seriously that it fears to do what institutions like, say,
> the BBC
> > are quite happy to do.
> 
> Again, I have not seen a single example of a respected encyclopedia doing this.
> Give me one example and I'll stop complaining. Wikipedia in particular needs to
> be sensitive to this type of thing due to our high profile and given the many
> misgivings about our reliability.
> 
> -- mav

Britannica is proud of its new articles but these are long overdue.
The whole point of Wikipedia is listing stuff as it changes. Real life
"book-encyclopedias" can't do April Fool's jokes because they don't
update daily.